Earth Day at Lake Lotus

We held banding demonstrations to the annual Earth Day event at Lake Lotus today. We captured Gray Catbirds, a Brown Thrasher, a Northern Cardinal, and two Carolina Wrens. The best data from the day came from the fact that the Wrens were two that we banded at last year's Earth Day event!

This means that the ones here stay here. Not seeming to cross the river. We have not recaptured these birds on 'our' side but have banded many others. Nice to know.

Best bird observed at the event was not even one we could band. A Yellow-billed Cuckoo flew in mid-morning.



It was a tough job to get any shots since it perched in bad light but I got the best I could.



The bird flew through the treetops for a while searching for and eating bugs. I am pretty sure this shot shows the bird with a bug in its bill.



Many birds were seen as the winds picked up and slowed the banding effort so it was nice to have a little distraction in our morning.



Near the end of our day we also had a thrilling fly over of a Swallow-tailed Kite. Good way to end the day.

The full story of the day is over at the banding blog. Stop by and see the other photos from the day!